Friday, November 7

is for Shakespeare.














Films to check out:

• Dreamchild: starring Ian Holm
• Alice Through the Looking Glass with Kate Beckinsale

history/ mystery- Freudian slip
Sunderland vs Wonderland

Tweedledum and Tweedledee:

• Red Knight
• dreams
• Alice cries/ real to cry

weeping Beauty tears to diamonds= art

Talbot:

• enters world of dreams
• dream aftermath pg 182-8
• mistake about the Christmas carol: it's an undigested piece of meat, not cheese (pg 186)

terrors transformed into art:

• fairy tales
• The Fall
• Pan's Labyrinth


• "Out, out brief candle. Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that frets and struts his hour and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." ~Macbeth
• breaking the magical spell with reality

3 iconic women:

1. Alice
2. Dorothy
3. Lyra

"they are plucky heroines going through the same things" ~Dr. Sexson

• they are: curious, brave and Innocent
• at the end you are supposed to be taller at the end, like Windsor tells you at the end of Pilate's

Shakespeare's 7 stages of man:

1. infant
2. school-boy
3. lover
4. soldier
5. justice
6. Pantaloon
7. second-childhood

• there is always confusion when waking from a dream
• enjoying childhood is different when you are an adult, you will never have the same experiences again, how many times have you said 'it's just not the same?'